.:justwerks software:.

Think of this as an elevator pitch.

Todays' business environment requires a company to examine its IT needs. The simple fact is that IT has become so cheap that adding new hardware and software is done without taking the total cost of ownership into perspective.

Take this very short list of costs:

• the people to configure and update the software.
• power and cool the hardware.
• business risk if the equipment fails.
• business risk if the office is damaged by some unknown -fire, burglary, flooding
• upgrading as the business outgrows the system.
• buying an oversized and overpriced system
• ...

In the above list we have talked about a great number of IT specific details - what is your business? Are you in the business of, for example, maintaining an email platform with fully up to date virus and spam protection? I highly doubt it.

You are in the information, personal, or relationship business. You should not have to absorb the costs of unneeded technology. In fact, you should not even have to think about the list of costs (incomplete above) associated with IT. Thankfully, there is one strong, and rapidly growing, aspect of IT that can help this IT problem.

Services.

Businesses can move the most required, yet mundane, services outside of their organization. There are many service providers that have built up their business to support your business - email is the most simple example. Instead of managing SPAM, virus attacks, and software upgrades you use the service to focus on using email as a tool to succeed in your business. You no longer pay for any of the support of the tool - you simply use it.

Undoubtedly there are risks in the model - where all your information "lives" in a service somewhere else - and it has one significant assumption: fast and ubiquitous internet access. The risks can be managed and inexpensive internet, even here in the North, is rapidly coming to fruition.

I believe with clever analysis and a recognition of the *real* costs of running local IT infrastructure that any business can become more productive with lower costs. In fact, we have started a company to do just that - help businesses use IT, not support IT.

This is the official announcement that justwerks software is opening its doors to businesses that want to unlock the potential of outsourced services. Use the contact form if you wish to engage us to find out more!